Process for treating blood



Patented July 11, 1939 V s" i UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE James L. Norman, Oakland, Calif.

No Drawing. Application January 26, 1938, Serial No. 187,005

5 Claims. (Cl. 99-21) This invention relates to a blood product and are then given an identification, such as a numprocess and has for its objects a blood product ber, Wl nch is the same as that given to the body adapted to be used as a substitute for meat and from which the blood was drawn, and after inprocess for producing the same, which product is spection of the body for disease, the receptacles 5 free from objectionable odors and is of pleasing containing the blood from the healthy animals 5 color, and is suitable for human consumption, may be emptied into a common receptacle where and is in particles of uniform size and conthe blood is congealed, preferably by refrigerasistency, A further object is a product of the tion, until the blood is about the consistency of above character in which the food values thereliver, when the blood water which separates from (,1 in are substantially unimpaired and also a procthe coagulated blood is removed. The congealed l ess of producing such product economically and blood does not stick to the sides of the container without contamination. Other objects and adwhen so congealed, as in the case where blood vantages will appear in the following description is congealed by heat or the introduction of steam and claims. into the mass. l Briefly described, heretofore beef blood and the After the blood is congealed, by allowing to like has been recovered and processed principalstand at atmospheric temperature, or preferably ly for use of the same as a fertilizer. After killunder refrigeration, the congealed blood may be ing, the animals are generally hung in a row and diced or comminuted into small pieces, about the blood drained from the bodies through a cut to inch in diameter, preferably about at the throat of each animal. This blood from. inch, for convenience, thus reducing the con- 20 the various animals is carried away by a com gealed mass into uniform sized pieces without mon drain to tanks where coagulation and cookthe slufiing off of the more or less liquid coning is effected by introduction of steam into the tent of the cubes or particles, as is in the case tanks through the blood, resulting in a mass of Where the blood is finely ground or is broken up congealed, cooked blood of about the texture of by steam during the congealing step. 25 loose loam soil with larger lumps therein where The blood cubes or pieces, as above described coagulation has been irregular. The odor of the are then dropped into ordinary hard water or resultant product is very objectionable, and, of natural, such as contains sodium or calcium in course, said product is wholly unsuitable for the form generally present in water, which water human consumption or as a dog or animal food, is at a temperature of about 212 F., or slightly 30 both because of the objectionable odor and be higher if there is an excess of sodium or calcium cause of its contamination with the hair and skin in the Water, and the pieces remain in such water of the animals during draining from the bodies, for not less than about 1 minutes up to 3 and because of contamination during subsequent minutes, the latter being preferable, at which handling and the mixing of the blood of healthy time the particles are of about the consistency 5 and diseased animals. Furthermore, the hereof relatively soft rubber and are free from obtofore practiced method of congealing and cookjectionable odors and are of a pleasing, reddishing results in non-uniformity of the finished brown color. The manner of subjecting the conproduct, the smaller particles being highly gealed pieces of blood to the effect of the hot cooked, and the larger ones being partially water may be by use of a wire basket filled with 40 cooked. This lack of uniformity in size and desaid pieces and then placed in the water or the gree of cooking is obviously accompanied with a pieces may be placed in the Water in any desired lack of uniformity in texture and digestibility in quantity and then lifted out or the water drained the finished product. off or the water may be poured over the pieces. The product of my process is free from objec- The method of using the wire basket is found 45 tionable odor and meets with every requirement preferable. for use as a food product, and is absolutely uni- After the pieces of blood are cooked in the form in texture, color, and in food values. water, as above described, the cooked blood is In practicing my process, the killed animals are suitable for use as a food or may be canned in each hung from the hooks or racks and a slit the usual manner with or without other food 5 is made in the skin of the throat through which products, which canning includes the application slit a tube is inserted with its open end within of heat preferably from 212 to say about 250 the neck adjacent the principal artery, and the F. to effectively kill any undesirable micro-orblood is drained through said tube into a clean ganisms that may be in the product. receptacle, one for each body. The receptacles In the cooking of the cut pieces, the longer the 55 iii:

blood is left in the water, the more completely it is cooked, but the odor Will be practically eliminated from the same at from about 1 to about 5 minutes for dices of say, about inch sides, but where smaller pieces of say about inch sides or less are formed, the time of cooking in water can be materially reduced to almost merely the immersion of the particles and immediate removal from the water. Also a temperature of water at 200 F. can be used, provided the pieces remain therein a sumcient time, say about 10 minutes for dices having about A; inch sides, but less than 200 F. appear to be impractical. The desired point of time is that which will solidify the particles, meaning that no liquid remains in the particles in a state where it will come to the surface after cooking, but excess cooking beyond the. point of stabilization of the product is not desirable since food values are lost together with excess shrinkage. With my product as described above in the preferred form, is contained about 25% crude protein by weight,

I claim:

1. The process of preparing fresh animal blood for consumption thereof comprising the steps of placing the fresh blood from the slaughtered ani mal in a receptacle, coagulating the fresh blood without increase in the temperature thereof, thereafter cutting the coagulated blood into pieces of substantially uniform-sized pieces and placing the cut pieces into natural water having a, temperature of substantially 212 F. for a period of at least about 1% to 3 minutes, and thereafter removing said pieces from the water.

2. The process of preparing fresh animal blood for consumption thereof comprising the steps of allowing the fresh blood from the slaughtered animal to stand in a quiescent state until coagulated, then draining the blood water from the mass of coagulated blood, then cutting the coagulated blood into relatively small uniformly sized pieces, then placing the cut pieces into relatively hard water of boiling temperature until the temperature of the pieces is substantially that of the water, and thereafter removing said pieces from the water.

3. The process of preparing fresh animal blood for consumption thereof that comprises the steps of draining the warm fresh blood from within a slaughtered animal into a receptacle without contact of the blood with the skin or hair of the animal, then coagulating the. blood in said receptacle at less than the normal temperature of the fresh blood, then reducing the mass of coagulated blood to relatively small, substantially uniformly sized pieces, and then placing said pieces into substantially boiling water containing sodium or calcium for from about 1 to about 3 minutes, and thereafter removing the pieces from the boiling water.

4. In the process of treating blood for consumption thereof as an animal food comprising the step of immersing coagulated fresh beef blood in boiling hard water for about 3 minutes time and thereafter removing the blood from the water and hermetically sealing the same in cans and subjecting the canned blood to a temperature above 212 F. for a predetermined period of time until the sealed blood is raised to said predetermined temperature.

5. In the process of treating blood for consumption thereof as an animal food comprising the steps of coagulating the fresh blood from a slaughtered animal by refrigeration, thereafter reducing the coagulated blood to relatively small pieces, and then immersing said pieces in natural water of substantially boiling temperature.

JAMES L. NORMAN. 

